Director Ted Kotcheff has all sorts of trouble with this mess, aside from credibility.. The rapport between the two rogue cineastes is enough to carry both films: the one they're making and the one Jennings is trying to make.. Jennings is clearly having a wonderful time recreating the fantasies of his youth, but sometimes his perspective get a little too inbred, and the picture suffers for it.. Sweet...
Karate Kid (2010) Download Voll
It's a kids' movie, aimed at kids and the people who buy their tickets. And on that level, it doesn't disappoint.. It's as sweet-natured a movie as you could expect about a 12-year-old learning to beat the crap out of his schoolmates.. If the movie's overlong (and it is, by about 20 minutes), it's long for a reason: It gives Dre time to grow.. The Karate Kid indulgently runs 2 hours, 20 minutes, at...
Die Boxtrolls (2014) Beobachten Film
The equivalent of throwing "Jurassic Park," "Avatar" and the absolute worst episode ever of "Land of the Lost" in a blender and pushing "garble.". Sincerely tries to pay homage to the likes of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson but is too contaminated by today's tame sensibilities to make it fly.. "The Boxtrolls" remains relentlessly busy up through its final credits, and it's clever in a nattering...
Titan A.E. (2000) Download Film
Could end up being the space epic to reckon with.. CGI fairy dust, dippy tooth puns and a semi-amusing Billy Crystal cameo can't disguise the fact that this sugary distraction is as hollow as a cavity.. The film is an industrial design marvel full of impressionistic, painterly backdrops and cool CGI effects.. One of those children's movies that is made for especially dim or easily fooled children.....
Spy Kids 3 - Game Over (2003) Download Voll
There's enough classically derived Road Runner-type fun to keep most family audiences happy. But the characters betray their contrivance.. While there's a certain rough charm to the handmade virtual reality world [Rodriguez] creates, the movie still has the undeniable drawback that it causes a headache.. Song of the Sea is another satisfying smack in the face of computer-generated 3D animation from...
Schwesterherzen - Ramonas wilde Welt (2010) Streaming-
The Spy Next Door makes The Pacifier look like Citizen Kane.. Besson is a pro when it comes to action movies, but this part live, part animation effort is a mess, highlighted by creepy animation, derivative plot points and a child star who speaks way too fast.. An odd imp of a movie, Arthur and the Invisibles may actually be filled with a bit too much invention for the average kid.. . There are too...
Thunderbirds (2004) Beobachten Film
A feeble Spy Kids imitation.. The excellent performances by the cast are also what raise this movie well above your ordinary action movie.. This movie is an epic action movie that I believe in a few years from now shall be more appreciated than it is today !!. . Aside from possibly launching a Ben Kingsley line of cosmetics, Thunderbirds seems destined to leave no lasting mark.. The film conceals...
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Fantasy,
Science Fiction
The Lego Movie (2014) Film-Streaming
Ben Stiller and crew go for the easy laughs, spackling the cracks in their armor with a cavalcade of marquee-name cameos and one dizzying action scene after another.. I stopped laughing because after 20 minutes, I'd had enough. The conceit gets stale fast.. The best part is what the movie has to say about conformity -- following the instructions on the box -- versus creativity, i.e. life as a jumble,...
Chicken Run - Hennen rennen (2000) Streaming-
The level of invention on display, from the vividly detailed models and figurines to the gallery of memorable supporting characters, is astonishing at any length.. It'd be churlish to carp about this triumph of craftsmanlike technique.. . Were Larry and Andy Wachowski just really, really lucky when they made The Matrix?. I love the look and the style and the spirit of this film.. More than the story...
Nachts im Museum (2006) Online-Streaming-
Rarely has so much production value yielded so little in terms of audience engagement.. ... an aimless and riotous mess.. . The special effects are far more inspired than the comedy in Night at the Museum, which strands several generations of performers in a highly derivative script and hackneyed direction.. The movie, despite some lavish special effects, feels perfunctory and generic. Kids may well...
Brendan und das Geheimnis von Kells (2009) Film-Streaming
I really like this movie. thank you. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Awesome as director this is the first time that they have been together again Since training day powerful movie go see it!!!. A beguiling kaleidoscopic indulgence for the eyes and soul.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing,...
Stormbreaker (2006) Film-Streaming
Ambitious and enjoyably silly teen thriller.. If they'd given this kid an umbrella, you could guarantee it would rain.. This lame teenage James Bond will leave audiences neither shaken nor stirred.. The result is effective, if too intense for younger children.. The characters lack shadings -- Nolte's ogre is loud but uninteresting -- and the tone of the fantasy world isn't witty, like Harry Potter's,...
Rambo (1982) Download Film
Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow.. With apologies to Mr. Stallone, no one would ever argue First Blood was an essential part of any healthy childhood. But the ability to make-believe certainly is.. Milner and Poulter are a lot of fun to watch, a pair of first-timer naturals who don't reek of Dakota Fanning Young Actorliness.. Plenty...
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Abenteuer,
Action,
Komdie,
Kriegsfilm,
Thriller
Der Babynator (2005) Download Voll
This is great. I loved it.. The director of Bringing Down the House and the writer and co-creator of Reno 911! fail to find anything funny outside of the diaper pail.. A by-the-numbers follow-up to the highly successful 2005 feature that was no great shakes to begin with.. An abysmal comedy.. If you own a TV, you will have heard the best laughs excerpted in unrelenting commercials leading up to the...
Mensch, Dave! (2008) Online-Streaming-
The movie never quite coheres into a consistent vision.. . Made by people who clearly think themselves much smarter than their audience. In place of whimsy, it offers cynicism.. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is completely in the spirit of its progenitor.. Meet Dave pays lip service to the joys of exploring new worlds, but it never steps off the tour bus.. . This is made-for-TV material dressed...
Speed Racer (2008) Voll Streaming
Twelve-year-old boys should be wowed, but for the rest of us, it will depend on your appetite for eye candy.. Someday, real artists may come along to use some of the techniques that the Wachowskis are developing. Then things will get interesting.. For a movie about velocity, the excitement factor is low and the races feel like a drag.. This toxic admixture of computer-generated frenzy and live-action...
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Action
Spy Kids 2 - Die Rückkehr der Superspione (2002) Beobachten Film
A recycling machine that recalls the high points of previous installments without demonstrating the need for a new one.. If there were a Shrek TV show, this could be the two-part finale of, say, season 3. It isn't bad. It just doesn't belong on a movie screen.. Rodriguez seems to be trying too hard to cram in too much - more gadgets, more characters, more noise, more color. But bigger, brighter and...
Die Schlümpfe 2 (2013) Film-Streaming
Shabbily filmed and resolutely unfunny.. When it comes to action, comedy, and drama, three words apply: lamer, lamer, lamest.. This insipid, and sometimes awkward, blend of animation, computer generation and live action wastes a ton of talent and lacks a true sense of whimsy.. It would be too much to say that there's a good movie somewhere inside Smurfs 2 looking to get out. But it wouldn't be too...
Cars 2 (2011) Online-Streaming-
...by Pixar's outrageous standards of Oscar shoo-in virtuosity, this sequel is a disappointment at best.. The law of averages has finally caught up with the most remarkable studio in modern movie history, the dream factory that lived up to Buzz Lightyear's joyous cry of "To infinity and beyond." This frenzied sequel seldom gets beyond mediocrity.. We've come to expect perfection from Pixar, mostly...
Omoide no Marnie (2014) Film Abspielen
The magic of the film lies not in the mysterious spring but in the richness of its performances.. While not a masterpiece, it is beautiful, nonetheless.. Herge's was an art of subtraction - of doing more with less - but that seems to have eluded Spielberg and Jackson.. Ineptly crunched film version of Natalie Babbitt's acclaimed 1975 children's book.. If you feel any kinship with the disaffected,...